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Ep. 52 - Writing Life, Spiritual Friendship, Hamartia & Hamartano Jul 25, 2018

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about the writing life, walking you through the three steps to take if you want to become a writer. After that he plods on to review Wesley Hill’s “Spiritual Friendship”. Finally Wilson takes a look at Hamartia and Hamartano in Galatians and Ephesians. Happy Plodding!Show Notes:

Writing Life;

Many people want to be writers but they don’t want to actually write
You have to pay your dues
1. Pay attention to your schooling. Do your work!
2. Don’t be writer who has written more books than you’ve read. Read!
3. Write! Don’t write after you have gotten the contract.
Commit yourself to writing a certain amount each day

Spiritual Friendship:

Written by Wesley Hill
Hill proposes that friendship is a solution to the gay challenges of being celibate
Erotic love is face to face, friendship love is shoulder to shoulder
Wesley tries to meld the face to face demeanor together with the shoulder to shoulder
This is not wise

Hamartia and Hamartano

Looking at the words hamartia and hamartano in Galatians
Mentioned in Galatians 1:4, 2:17, 3:22
Mentioned in Ephesians 2:1, 4:26

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Ep. 51 - Human Sexuality, Toxic Charity, Hamartia Jul 18, 2018

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about human sexuality and how our era’s sexuality is reaching that of biker gangs and vikings. After that he plods on to review Robert D. Lupton’s “Toxic Charity”. Finally Wilson takes a look at Hamartia in 2 Corinthians. Happy Plodding!

Show Notes:

Human Sexuality:

Laying out two approaches to human sexuality
1. Men are dominant and you can’t make it go away
2. Both men and women have two very different approaches to sex
Men have a more lackadaisical hit and run approach to sexuality while women have a nesting approach to sexuality
When men submit their sexuality to their women (their wives), civilizations begin to form
Our era is taking away men’s leadership so now men are leaning towards the viking style of sexuality

Toxic Charity:

Written by Robert D. Lupton
Many people help others because they feel guilty
He shows that many of our charities are bad for the people we are giving to
A Lot of Deacon boards need to read this book

Hamartia:

Looking at Hamartia in 2 Corinthians
The word only appears twice (2 Corinthians 5:21)

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Ep. 50 - Revoice Conference, Darwin's House of Cards, Hamartano & Hamartia Jul 11, 2018

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson re-address the revoice conference, arguing that the whole thing is completely backwards. After that he plods on to review Tom Bethel’s “Darwin’s House of Cards”. Finally, Wilson takes a look at Hamartano & Hamartia in 1 Corinthians. Happy Plodding!

Show Notes:

The Revoice Conference:

They want it to be possible for someone to be a gay celibate
The main thing that is wrong with this is that it is privileging gender confusion sexuality issues in a way that we never would privilege any other sin
This is like having your identity be in gambling but you never actually bet anything
This whole thing is not a sustainable project
What are the transgenders committing to not do?

Darwin’s House of Cards:

Written by Tom Bethel
He is bringing us up to speed on the debate of darwinism
He gives great insight to the problems created by convergent evolution
The conclusion of the book was great, he points out that the plausibility structure supporting darwinism is not there anymore

Hamartano & Hamartia:

Looking at these sins in 1 Cor.
Hamartano is used a number of times but Hamartia is not mentioned until chapter 15
1 Cor. 6:18,28, / 7:36 / 8:12 / 15:3, 17, 34, 56

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Ep. 49 - American & French Revolutions, Skin in the Game, Hamartia Jul 04, 2018

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Howdy! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about the American and French Revolutions, and the history behind them. He plods on to review Nassim Taleb’s book, “Skin in the Game” and finishes things off with a look at Hamartia in Romans. Happy Plods!

Show Notes:

American & French Revolutions:

We can’t have a biblical explanation of the War for Independence without properly seeing the context
The revolutionary era of the 18th century was kicked off by the French Rev. not the American War for Independence
Americans had every constitutional right to revolt

Skin in the Game:

Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He argues that information doesn’t make you wise, having skin in the game makes you wise
A lot of the problems in the world are caused by people who do not have to face any consequences for being wrong
Taleb argues that risk is a really good thing
You want to live in such a way that when you make a wise choice you reap the benefit and vice versa

Hamaria:

Hamartia occurs 48 times in Romans
Found in Romans 3:9, 3:20, 4:7. 4:8, 5:12, 5:13, 5:20, 5:21, 6:1, 6:2, 6:6, 6:7, 6:10. 6:11, 6:12, 6:13, 6:14, 6;16, 6:17; 6:18, 6:20. 6:22, 6:23, 7:5, 7:7, 7:8, 7:9, 7:11, 7:13, 7:14, 7:17, 7:20, 7:23, 7;25, 8:2, 8:3, 8;10, 11;27, 14:23

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Ep. 48 - Identity Politics, Suicide of the West, Hamartano & Hamartia Jun 27, 2018

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Howdy! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about how identity politics has crept its way into the church. He plods on to review Jonah Goldberg’s book, “Suicide of the West” and finishes things off with another look at Hamartano and Hamartia in Romans.

Show Notes:

Identity politics & the church

Identity politics would not be making such in-roads into the church unless we were having an identity crisis
Our identities have to be in Christ
As identity politics come into the church, race & gender relations get worse
If we try to have any kind of harmony that doesn’t confront the fact of our sinful natures it is a grave mistake

Suicide of the West

Even though I’m going to be critical, the book is amazing... buy three copies
Written by Jonah Goldberg
Goldberg’s book “Liberal Fascism” is one of the best books I’ve ever read
The critique is that the first line of the book says that there is no God in this book

Hamartano & Hamartia:

These words show up so much in Romans that we need to split it up into two episodes
Hamartano is mentioned in Romans 2:12, 3:23, 5:12, 5;14, 5:16, 6:15
Understanding these things, shall we sin because we are under grace and not under the law God forbid it, Paul says.

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Ep. 47 - Revoice Conference, Subtracting Christianity, Hamartano & Hamartia Jun 20, 2018

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Howdy! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about the upcoming Revoice Conference, claiming the whole thing to be “counter productive in the extreme”. He plods on to review Joseph Sobran’s book, “Subtracting Christianity” and finishes things off with another look at Hamartano and Hamartia in Acts.

Show Notes:

Revoice Conference:

A doctrine has developed in the Evangelical & Reformed wing of the Church saying that someone can have a gay identity and be a Christian provided that they live a celibate lifestyle
Their identity can be gay but their behavior in the bedroom cannot be gay
The problem is that people don’t see the connection between effeminacy in manner and what winds up happening sexually, don’t start something you cannot finish
This revoice conference saying that they want to minister to homosexuals by letting them keep everything they can possibly keep is extremely counter productive

Subtracting Christianity:

Written by Joseph Sobran
This book is a collection of Sobran’s columns
He is a very engaging writer, making you think deep
Some of his criticisms of Israel are silly
He does have a cockeyed view from what is going on in the east
However, he has a sane, healthy, and happy voice for traditional Christian values

Hamartano & Hamartia

Consider the book of Acts
Hamartano is used once in Acts, where it is rendered as offend (Acts 25:8)
Hamartia is used eight times in Acts, (Acts 2:38, 3:19, 5:31, 7:6, 10:43, 13:38, 22:16, 26:18
Apostolic preaching frequently included the topic of sin. The relative absence of sin in much of modern preaching is therefore a great mystery. Our theologians are still working on it

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Ep. 46 - Trump: Negotiator Man, Bib. Authority After Babel, Hamartano & Hamartia Jun 13, 2018

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Howdy! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about Trump as the notorious negotiator man. He then plods on to talk about Kevin Vanhoozer's book "Biblical Authority After Babel". Finishing things off with another look at hamartano and hamartia. Happy Plods!

Show Notes:

Trump: Negotiator Man

Trump knows how to negotiate
Trump is not on a debate team trying to be consistent
He is being inconsistent for the sake of being a better negotiator
We’ve had ugly flights and smooth landings with Trump

Biblical Authority After Babel

Written by Kevin Vanhoozer
Cool kids these days are saying the Reformation was a bad idea
Vanhoozer does a great job of showing the five solas that describe the Reformation
Very packed book, read in short bits

Hamartano & Hamartia

Hamartano: John 5:14, 8:11,9:2,3
Hamartia: John 1:29, 8:21,24.34,46, 9:34,41, 15:22,24, 16:8-9, 19:11, 20:23

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Ep. 45 - Edenic Perfection, All That Is In God, Hamartano Jun 06, 2018

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Doug talk about Edenic perfection. Then he plugs James Dolezal’s book, All That is in God. Finishing things off with a look at the Greek word “hamartano”. Happy Plodding!

Show Notes:

Edenic Perfection:

What do we mean when we think about the garden of Eden being a perfect place
What did a perfect garden look like and not look like?
Entropy existed prior to the fall
But the entropy and death of man was introduced by sin

All that is in God:

Written by James Dolezal
This is a defense of the doctrine of divine simplicity
God is not a composite being, God is a simple being
Anything that is in God, is God
We don’t believe that God is Zeus standing on a balcony looking down on us

Hamartano:

Found in Luke, rendered as sin and trespass
Luke 15:18, the prodigal son confesses to his father that he has sinned
Luke 15:21, Jesus says that if a brother trespasses against us we should forgive him upon repentance, even if he does it 7 times in one day
Hamartia is found 7 times in Luke
(Luke 1:77, 3:3, 5:20/21/23/24, 7:47/48/49, 11:4, 24:27)

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Ep. 44 - Guilt & Totalitolerance, Suicide of the West, Hamartia May 30, 2018

Show notes

Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Doug address guilt and totalitolerance. Then he goes on to plug the book, Suicide of the West, based off of a review written by David Bahnsen & Brian Mattson. Finishing things off with a look at the Greek word “hamartia”. Happy Plodding!

Show Notes:

Guilt & Totalitolerance:

Many of the liberties that are being offered to Americans are bribes
They are bribes from an establishment that wants a docile and easily manipulated public
The fact that Americans have indulged themselves in so many ways, means that they are carrying a fundamental burden of guilt
A guilty people will be the most fiercely moralistic people
There is a tight connection between guilt and totalitolerance
Preachers need to realize this and start preaching free grace

Suicide of the West:

This is a review of a book review
The review was about Jonah Goldberg’s “The Suicide of the West”
The review was by David Bahnsen & Brian Mattson
They both give this book a rave review, dinging Goldberg for his atheism
Gratitude requires an object, gratitude presupposes relationship
If you don’t have metaphysical money in the bank the checks you wright are all going to bounce

Hamartia:

Continued from episode 43, means sin
Mentioned 6 times in the book of Mark
Mark 1:4,1:5,2:5,7:5,9:5,10:5

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Ep. 43 - Dirty Omniscience, Approved By God, Hamartano & Hamartia May 23, 2018

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Doug address the rise of dirty omniscience. Then he goes on to plug the book, Approved By God, by Wright & Townsend. Finishing things off with a look at the Greek words “hamartano & hamartia”. Happy Plodding!

Show Notes:

Dirty Omniscience:

Google & Facebook are virtually tracking everything we do
This is going to go badly wrong
Our browser history is stored somewhere
We already know God knows, but now somebody else knows, and they are not loving and caring like the Lord
People who want to rival God are in big trouble
Christians should throw shade on this dirty omniscience

Approved By God:

Written by Wright & Townsend
Helpful but patchy
Deals with the subject of churches and incorporation
We shouldn’t want the church saying one thing while the state is saying something else
A corporation exists at the pleasure of the state
Wright & Townsend are so concerned with separation from the state that they overstate their case

Hamartano & Hamartia:

This word is used a lot in the NT, we will have to break it up
Starting with Matthew, Hamartano is rendered twice as sin and once as trespass
(Matthew 18:21/27:4/18:15/1:21/3:6/9:2/9:5-6/12:31/26:28)
The new covenant is all about dealing with our sin
Those who reject the idea of sin (as all relativists do) are showing their antipathy for the good news that God has given to us.

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